From my favorite catalogue. Glasses and a found poem.
Konnichiwa! Now you can have anime eyes
without expensive makeup or surgery
adult size glasses that give you large eyes
perfect for Skype, FaceTime, and Google Meetups
limited vision — do not drive
or operate giant robots while wearing
Theo and Django at my desk yesterday helping me with the copy edits. Overnighted the finished edits this morning. Django plays himself in the new novel, by the way. Look for No Regrets, Coyote in a bookstore near you in August.
The new issue of Real South is out. Buy it online or try the iPhone app, the iPad app, or the Android app. And keep up with us on the Real South Blog. Fiction by Teddy Jones, Cully Perlman, John Cottle, Gary Carter, and William Garland. The holidays as we do them down here. Music, food, and lots more!
i'm not a scientist, man
i can tell you what recorded history says
i can tell you what the bible says
whether the earth was created
in seven days
or seven actual eras
i’m not sure we’ll ever
be able to answer that
it’s one of the great mysteries
--Marco Rubio (R-FL)
My friend Steven Raichlen is interviewd at Advice to Writers.
Tonight along the Intracoastal.
An Arizona family suffers. Football fan takes his picture in a mirror, goes for his shotgun. Tanning parlor owner doesn't wait for the skin cancer to take him down. Here in Broward County we're still finding uncounted ballots. When the rich can no longer buy elections, we no longer have a democracy. Maybe you also got the e-mail from Broward County's Spirit Airlines letting you know that Romney won. Ole Miss students take to the streets.
On Election Day on Hollywood Beach our returning vultures circle a Republican enclave.
Saw this sign this weekend on Sanibel Island. Did some research:
Timothy Noonan was a Boston Hairdresser from 1871 through 1880. His primary address was on Washington Street: at 723, then 913, and 910. From 1871 through 1873, he was listed as Hairdresser & Saloon. Some time after 1880, the company became known as "T. Noonan & Sons". In 1913, they registered "Petrole" as a Trade Mark. At that time, Frank M. Noonan was speaking for the company. In 1920, Frank M. Noonan, registered the Trade Mark "Zepp's," and claimed to have been using it since 1876. Fike also indicated that the Zepp's Dandruff Cure was advertised in 1930 and 1942. Note one variant has the word Petrole misspelled "Pretrole." The product "Petrole Dandruff Killer" was for sale in the 1901 Morrison & Plummer catalog.
Here a Noonan's delivery truck runs into some problems:
This ad from the Harvard Crimson (November 12, 1920):
Men with thin hair should not allow that little bald spot to grow larger and larger every month. One week's trial of Noonan's Hair Petrole will show what can be done with hair that is not entirely dead.
Noonan's Hair Petrole will soon rid the scalp of scales and dandruff, will give tone and renewed life to hair that is slowly dying from neglect. Rub a little in the scalp every night for seven nights and note how the hair appears to take on new life.
Barbers apply Noonan's Hair Petrole for fifteen cents, or obtain a bottle from drug and department stores, or direct from the manufacturers, T. Noonan & Sons, 33 Portland St., Boston, Mass.
And this from the Journal of the Indiana Stae Medical Association:
Noonan's Hair Petrole (T. Noonan & Sons Co.) contained 17.02 percent of alcohol, salicylic acid and about 12 percent of alcohol, salicylic acid and borax.
My friend Mark Pawlak has a new collection of poems just out. Featured on WBUR today.
Not only does Nate Silver have Barack extending his lead . . .
So do the world's bookmakers . . .
Put the champagne on ice!
(thanks to Peter on North Captiva)
Some erosion on Dania Beach. The OED defines cliffing as the climbing of cliffs. And notes that its usage is rare. Merriam-Webster and the American Heritage have nothing to say. Wiktionary, however, addresses the meaning above: "the formation of cliffs." It offers this quote from Eric C. F. Bird, Coastal Geomorphology: An Introduction:
"Cliffing (scarping) of the seaward margins of coastal dunes and the absence of new fore dunes (or the formation of new fore dunes lasting at most a few years) is very widespread around the world’s coastline, a consequence of the modern prevalence of beach erosion."
President Obama is now better than a 4-in-5 favorite to win the Electoral College, according to the FiveThirtyEight forecast. His chances of winning it increased to 83.7 percent on Friday, his highest figure since the Denver debate and improved from 80.8 percent on Thursday.
Lawrebce Craig, founder and pit master, Craig's BBQ, DeValls Bluff, Arkansas
Nate Silver's sabermetrics give us hope.
"How you uh, how you comin' on that novel you're working on? Huh? Gotta a big, uh, big stack of papers there?
"Phoebe" by Phoebe
From now on, you will wear
two-piece swim suits
when on vacations.
Angela, I need to know,
are you committed to being
my porn star?
I do not want to hear "no"
or "we’ll see about that."
I want my fantasies to be with you.
God has authorized you
and you only
as my partner for intimacy
and that is what I want.
Get ready!
--Representative Allen West (R--Florida)
Spent the last several days in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, at the South Dakota Festival of Books, a lovely city with a vibrant downtown and a spectacular waterfall that the locals kept apologizing for because the water was so low because of the drought. We ate well in town. Went with my friend Dave Cole twice to the Phillips Avenue Diner where we discovered chislic. Apparently chislic is unknown outside South Dakota and it's too bad it is. In fact, Dave's from West River, grew up in Rapid City, and had never heard of chislic. Chislic is cubes of meat, seasoned and deep-fired or grilled, and often served on a skewer. The Phillips Avenue Diner version goes the extra mile. Our waitress told us that in southeast South Dakota the preferred meat was lamb, but the Diner used beef. Theirs is marinated and lightly fried steak, served with a white cheese sause, marinated tomatoes, gorganzola, and fried onions. It was delicious. The onion were lighly battered and fried the way onion rings are cooked in New England.
The Diner also serves a sandwich we didn't have the courage to try. It's called Mom's Monte Cristo, and here is the description: "Sourdough bread stuffed with ham, turkey, Swiss and American, parmesan battered and grilled, with powdered sugar and strawberry sauce." We also passed on the more healthy hot mashed potato and fried chicken wrap.
I also has Korean chislic at Parker's Bistro, an elegant little restaurant on South Main. Chislic with kimchee--also terrific.
We had lunch with old Worcester friends Carl and Brenda Kline, who are now living in Brookings SD. Caught up on old friends and curent families. We ate at Minerva's and drank at Skelly's. Before I left the book festival, I found this book on the street.
